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LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC

LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,603 to it, the largest being MCMAHON FOUNDATION ($291,382). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$325k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$484k
Net assets
$125k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Lawton Philharmonic Society Inc does

Mission

Performing concerts in order to promote cultural involvement in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Live professional orchestral performances to promote community cultural involvement.

    $245,244 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,244.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($227k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2018 Revenue 120 ($271k) Expenses 99 ($267k) Net assets 104 ($118k)2019 Revenue 114 ($258k) Expenses 104 ($279k) Net assets 85 ($97k)2020 Revenue 99 ($224k) Expenses 76 ($205k) Net assets 101 ($115k)2022 Revenue 105 ($239k) Expenses 98 ($263k) Net assets 138 ($157k)2023 Revenue 99 ($225k) Expenses 103 ($277k) Net assets 93 ($105k)2024 Revenue 122 ($277k) Expenses 109 ($293k) Net assets 79 ($89k)2025 Revenue 143 ($325k) Expenses 107 ($289k) Net assets 110 ($125k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (107)Net assets (110)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $158k to $107k (−32%).

$115k
$120k
$99k
$116k
$158k
$107k
$90k
$127k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 32% · 2020 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% · 2024 20% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$42k
’17
$4k
’18
−$21k
’19
$18k
’20
−$24k
’22
−$52k
’23
−$16k
’24
$36k
’25
4.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed2221212121192120
Joined·+4+2+3·+2+3+0
No longer listed·523·411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $48k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC.

60%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 78% · 2019 53% · 2020 33% · 2021 62% · 2022 57% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

63% of LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

NC
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.

State$65k
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Top programs
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$43k
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$12k
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Pub Sch Ed$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC?
LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,603 to it, the largest being MCMAHON FOUNDATION ($291,382). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $483,603 in grants to LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC?
MCMAHON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $291,382 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAWTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing